Senior Technical Architect

About the Team and our Scope

At L&H Solutions, we build and commercialize cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for Swiss Re Life & Health insurance clients. We offer a portfolio of over six products, including established offerings like Magnum with over 60 active clients worldwide, and innovative products such as UW Ease. We are a SW house within Swiss Re.

Our team consists of more than 150 technical professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in multiple countries, working on these multi-regional, highly available solutions.

As a Senior Technical Architect
, you will be responsible for defining and evolving the technical architecture of Swiss Re’s Life & Health digital products. You will play a critical role in shaping end‑to‑end solution design, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability across distributed systems and cloud infrastructures.
This role requires deep technical expertise, hands‑on design capability, and the ability to influence engineering teams through thought leadership, coaching, and architectural governance. You will collaborate with product managers, delivery leads, and senior stakeholders to align technology strategy with business outcomes.

• Define and evolve application architecture aligned with enterprise standards like scalability, maintainability and cost effectiveness.
• Design mission critical solutions using 12‑factor App development principles with Spring and Spring Boot
• Design and develop secure authentication (e.g., Okta, Azure AD) and robust authorization mechanisms
• Design and document scalable cloud‑native infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Establish and enforce coding standards, design patterns, secure coding practices and architecture best practices
• Evaluate and integrate third‑party solutions, open‑source tools, and cloud‑managed services
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable and maintainable solution designs
• Lead and mentor engineering teams on architecture, design, coding, and deployment
• Perform architecture and code reviews to ensure adherence to quality and security standards
• Collaborate with Dev Ops teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
• Oversee vulnerability assessments
  , open‑source license usage
  , and secure coding practices
• Ensure compliance with governance, data privacy, and industry regulations
• Assist in the design and documentation of application architectures under senior guidance.
• Participate in architecture workshops
  , reviews, and design sessions with engineering teams.
• Support the translation of business requirements into high‑level technical designs.
• Contribute to proof‑of‑concept (PoC) projects and pilot implementations.
• Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, and Dev Ops teams to ensure architectural compliance.
• Assist in creating diagrams and documentation for system design and workflows.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and contribute fresh ideas for improvement.

We understand that no one meets 100% of the requirements — if you are passionate about building reliable, resilient systems and meet most of the below, we’d love to hear from you.

• 12+ years of experience in Java/J2EE based enterprise software development
• 5+ years in application/solution architecture roles with strong hands‑on involvement
• Expert‑level proficiency in Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security
• Extensive experience designing and building scalable architectures and solutions
• Experience with authentication and authorization using Okta
  , Azure Active Directory
  , and OAuth2/OpenID Connect
• Proficient in REST APIs, Multithreading, Hibernate ORM/JPA
  , SQL, RDBMS (Postgre
  
  SQL, MSSQL)
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud (including services like AKS, Key Vault, Storage Accounts etc)
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools – Docker, Kubernetes (AKS)
• Expertise in CI/CD and Maven/Gradle
• Experience with full‑stack development using Angular or React
• Strong integration experience (
  REST, SOAP, ESB, Kafka, RabbitMQ
  )
• Experience using IDEs such as Intelli
  
  J IDEA and Spring Tool Suite (STS)
• Experience in SaaS product…